NUGGETS OF WISDOM - 1089

 

• ·       “But your solitude will be a support and a home for you, even in the midst of very unfamiliar circumstances, and from it you will find all your paths.” ~ Rainer Maria Rilke

  ·       “Snow was falling, so much like stars filling the dark trees that one could easily imagine its reason for being was nothing more than prettiness.” ~ Mary Oliver

  ·       Assume that others are acting with positive intent. — Brooke

  ·       “Only that mind which freely submits itself to the spirit direction can hope to survive the mortal time-space existence as an immortal child of the eternal spirit world.”

  ·       If you aren’t grateful for what you already have, what makes you think you would be happy with more. - Roy T. Bennett

  ·       "Choice, not chance, determines one's destiny." - Author Unknown 

  ·       Look for beauty in the least obvious places. — Brooke

  ·       “In one generation Jesus lifted women out of the disrespectful oblivion and the slavish drudgery of the ages. And it is the one shameful thing about the religion that presumed to take Jesus’ name that it lacked the moral courage to follow this noble example in its subsequent attitude toward women.”

  ·       When I am silent, I fall into the place where everything is music. - Rumi

  ·       "Though pride is not a virtue, it is the parent of many virtues." -  M. C. Collins

  ·       OUBAITORI: The idea that people, like flowers, bloom in their own time and in their own way. — Brooke

  ·       “Genuine religion takes nothing away from human existence, but it does add new meanings to all of life; it generates new types of enthusiasm, zeal, and courage.”